A380 Engine Shut down-CDG
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Gentlemen, we really need to put this 't and b' thing straight once and for all. You DONT get tea and biscuits if you screw up! That would just be tea....tea AND biscuits is for when you have earned some praise. Screw up and it is an interview WITHOUT tea and biscuits. Why do so many people misquote this?!
Mines a custard cream......
Mines a custard cream......
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Actually, 380, am in an English managed airline pretty close to your heart.....! So the tea WITHOUT biccies is very much a part of our culture here!! Trust me, screw up and you will not be getting the Foxs nor the custard creams....!!
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Gentlemen, backstabbing or not, the original expression has always been 'tea and no biccies' - think about it for one second with your 'thinking head' on. What company would b*ll*ck you and provide you with biscuits?! I rather think that all of you english-speaking cousins have bastardised the original expression into the complete opposite....
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JAARule, guess that you need to go back to school if you struggle with scousers and yorkshiremen in their mother tongue.....BBC english (like what I speak) is only one dialect in a rich and varied language...as for the scots....suppose that I can sympathise with you on that score! We might get rid of them in an independence vote soon anyway!
Not your average pruner, though, that bandies 'mellifluous' about....did you have to look it up?
Not your average pruner, though, that bandies 'mellifluous' about....did you have to look it up?
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Smiffy et al, I think 'mellifluous' is commonly used in the context of script whereas 'dulcet' would be more apt in this context referring to a discussion over tea and biccies. As for the biscuits, McVities rich tea bisuits I would think would be for a bollocking whereas Hobnobs (or maybe Tim Tams for our Aussie colleagues) for when you've earned some praise, although I used to be partial to custard creams.
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Doesnt the number of in-flight shutdowns impact directly on your ETOPS rating..?
It could be aircraft type, hopefully someone else will chime in.
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Nobody has said anything about ETOPS on a 380.....the question is this; since it is the SAME engineering department overseeing massive fleets of both 2 and 4 engined a/c, does the in-flight shutdown rate on one fleet affect the ETOPS category on another?! They are, after all, looked after by the same people.....any clearer?
I think that it is a fair question so lets not all join in thinking that we know nothing about ETOPS!!
I think that it is a fair question so lets not all join in thinking that we know nothing about ETOPS!!
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Actually, in one sense you are right in that I know nothing about tea and biscuits.....in the many years that I have been aviating, I have never been called in for tea either with or without biscuits! (but I do know others that were....and when it was a b*ll*cking there were never biscuits on the table!).
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I think the important thing we have learnt here is that if called into the office, try and determine what sort of biscuit will, or will not be served. If cream centred or Choc dipped, you should be ok. If not, dust the CV off.
As for ETOPS (engines turn or people swim? I forget?) it won't be such a big thing for EK as more maxi buses arrive to do the real work. Perhaps the odd 120 min sector to southern India or SEY perhaps. Do freighters operate under this rule?
The don
As for ETOPS (engines turn or people swim? I forget?) it won't be such a big thing for EK as more maxi buses arrive to do the real work. Perhaps the odd 120 min sector to southern India or SEY perhaps. Do freighters operate under this rule?
The don
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Hey you lot better be careful making jokes about each other's planes on this forum, you might run into this guy out on line... 
Dubai motorist ran over woman he thought was laughing at his car - The National
Dubai motorist ran over woman he thought was laughing at his car - The National
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